- Every time you are thanking God, you are activating power unknowingly. Thanksgiving is not a thing of the heart but it must be offered.
- In Luke 17:15, the healed leper returned and thanked God with a loud voice. Therefore, thanksgiving must be externalized and not internalised – that’s why it is called offering of the thanks with our lips in Hebrews 13:15
- Thanksgiving is a debt. Without God, we can’t do anything - John 15:5. If anything has been done in your life, you owe God thanksgiving
- In John 3:27 and 1 Corinthians 4:7, these scriptures confirm that we are receivers of God’s blessings not achievers, and therefore we owe God thanksgiving who is the enabler.
READING: 1 Chronicles 29:10-14 | 2 Timothy 1:16 | 2 Sam 7:18-22
The Power of Thanksgiving helps us to maintain the blessing of God – as humans, we don’t have capacity to upscale, maintain or retain and through thanksgiving, we are able to maintain all the above blessings. Thanksgiving also baptizes us with joyfulness – Thankful people are always joyful – Psalms 92:1-2.
Why do we thank God?
1. For his benefits – Benefits are not entitlements, they are endowment in Psalm 103:2, namely:
- Forgiveness of your sins,
- Healing of all your diseases
- Redemption of life
- Crowing of the head with his loving kindness and tender mercies
- Satisfaction of your life with good things
2. For his wondrous things in your life – 2 Corinthians 2:14. God is the reason as to why things are working in your life – Philippians 2:13. Thanksgiving is not a gift – it’s an attitude that needs to be steered up – It is a spirit of Jesus, because He was a thanksgiver.
How to steer up the attitude of thanksgiving
- Be a deep thinker; always remember who you were, what you were and who you are now
- Don't forget God's benefits - Psalm 103:2
- Grumbling and mumbling raise a satanic altar that enable the demons to attack your life
- Thinkers are thanksgivers - It is by thinking that we maintain our sanity
- Don't get there/Up and forget while you were down - 1 Chronicles 29:14 | 1 Chronicles 28:4 - God enforced David to the throne
- Psalm 27:10 - David offering thanks to God